Interchangeable furniture unit.



BIO-841,872. PATENTED JAN. 22, 1907. D. ELHUNTER.

INTEROHANGEABLE FURNITURE UNIT. 7

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, 1905.

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D. E. HUNTFR. I INTBRGHANGEABLE FURNITURE UNIT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, 1905.

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w/r/vfaafs U U MVf/VTO/f e' m WWW x DAVID BHVNTEK the load, bearing down in the direction indicated by the arrow L of Fig. 2, will tend to tip the unit Yiin the direction indicated by the arrow T, and so also if in the upper section X the drawer M, whose contents may be heavy, is pulled out.

In order to guard against the accidental tippin of a unit or units in the above-describe manner, I provide simple fastening means which securethe units together vertically, so that when assembled a series of such units will have practicall the same unitary solidity as a case frame in the oldfashioned way. Within the rabbet A of the slat A, I place buttons A secured to the slats by screws A and soproportioned that they may turn in the rabbet A and lie wholly within the dimensions of the same, as indicated by the dotted-line position A in Fi 3. When a pair of such units are assemble the rabbets A and C are opposite each other, and the button A may then be turned so as to extend over the edge of slat C in the rabbet G. Then if there is any tendency of the'upper one of two units to tip upon the lower the fastening-button A? will prevent this effectu ally. r

In order to provide means for manipulating the fastening-buttons A a suitable hole G is made in the bottom G of each unit, through which the person assembling or taking down the unit system may have access to the buttons.

'In the manner above described all of the advantages of the unit system areconserved, and the assemblage of units is made to all practical intents and purposes a solid integer, possessing all the stability of a book or drawer case constructed with a single frame.

What I claim is v The combination of two interlocking furniture-sections comprising the interengaging rabbeted slats at top and bottom, respectively, the fastening-button operating in said rabbeted portions, and a false bottom covering said slats and having an aperture therein for access to the fastening-button.

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts, this 1st day of May, 1905.

DAVID EDGAR HUNTER.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH T. BRENNAN, GRACE E. GIBBONS. 

